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- Great Until It Wasn’t
- Did Sh?ta just fuck over the Cubs?
- Another week, another book?
- Cubs should embrace “all encompassing suck”
- Your new favorite book is on sale now
- Book Excerpt: The Immortals
- Podcast: Are the Brewers more of a rival than the Cardinals?
- Even the good Cubs are getting screwed
- Jed’s plan is clear, and it’s dumb
- Out of options
- The Cubs aren’t close
- RECRAP: Bears win a gut-punch game
- Podcast: Let’s fix the intentional walk
- Podcast: Off seasoning
- Never too late to be too late
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Cubs trade value rankings – Part II
Yesterday we plowed through the bottom 30 of this completely unscientific ranking of the Cubs current trade assets. Â The idea is simple. Â It’s a ranking of every player on the current 40 man roster, plus 10 other guys who will be on it someday. Â Age, past…

Cubs trade value rankings – Part I
Apparently some other Internet sportswriter does trade value columns every year on NBA players, but since I don’t read hipster, boutique sports sites, I have no idea about that. Â Since we’ve reached the part of the Cubs rebuilding when they are starting…

Oiled up and ready: Darren Rovell chats with Tom Ricketts
ESPN financial wizard and obsequious Twitter blowhard Darren Rovell showed up at Cubs camp last week for a sit down of the only two guys unironically still pasting their hair into place with copious amounts of pomade. Rovell played all the hits in three minutes of…
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